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[WhereistheDove?]

Funny but most of us prefer sure things. Blowouts haven't stopped the UConn women from having a national audience. People who didn't play golf started following Tiger Woods. Remember when The Cowboys were Americas team? For decades the Yankees were the team for most of the nation including areas which had their own team.

I feel like Women’s college bball having its moment now, when the UConn women haven’t dominated in a while and there is more parity than the game has seen in a long time is not the argument for your point that you think it is.

 

[ctchamps]

I feel like Women’s college bball having its moment now, when the UConn women haven’t dominated in a while and there is more parity than the game has seen in a long time is not the argument for your point that you think it is.

There isn't parity. Just 4-8 new dominating teams. It was UConn Tennessee with two to four other potentials. Not it's UConn South Carolina with two to four other potentials. And UConn has been to the final four all but one year in the last decade plus. And UConn has had the worst luck injury wise the past three years including last year where they were one contentious basket from playing in the finals.

 

[ctchamps]

You are arguing that people want blowouts. If that is the case, why aren’t fans demanding schools downgrade leagues so they can win more games? And why not play all of UConn’s non conference games against NEC schools?

Which games draw better crowds, ones that will be competitive or one that will be a blowout? Does your preference for blowouts extend to when UConn is on the losing side?

I'm talking about non dedicated fans. You want national audiences to turn into games. Not just the dedicated school fans who have season tickets. How many UConn fans is that? 10 - 20 - thousand who are going to the games and are the passionate dedicated fans that are not the average fans. That want to see strong competition but come to this forum when the game should have been a blow out and we win by 4 - 8 points.

In our 99 championship year almost all the hype was about Duke and they were blowing out teams game after game.

People root for winners. They don't care how that happens. If there is not a succession of years by a dominant team casual fans start to tune out. But give them something that's a sure or almost sure thing and they tune in. It's not like Caitlin Clark had a national audience the first two seasons of her career.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

There isn't parity. Just 4-8 new dominating teams. It was UConn Tennessee with two to four other potentials. Not it's UConn South Carolina with two to four other potentials. And UConn has been to the final four all but one year in the last decade plus. And UConn has had the worst luck injury wise the past three years including last year where they were one contentious basket from playing in the finals.

There’s less parity than men’s bball, there’s way more parity than there used to be in women’s bball though and the average fan seems to like that.

 

[ctchamps]

There’s less parity than men’s bball, there’s way more parity than there used to be in women’s bball though and the average fan seems to like that.

There is significantly less parity versus the men. After the top 4 - 8 teams there is a large drop-off in talent. There are far fewer upsets for those top teams than in mens basketball. Have things gotten better. Yes. Maybe you have another 20 good teams that give some challenge instead of five. But that still leaves 330 teams that are just w's for these few teams. The bar was so low and the change so little as to not make the improvement significant imo. Ratings are up because of the marketing of certain players like Caitlin and Paige and the media is finally recognizing they can make a decent profit promoting the women's game.